Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I know there are five stages of grief, but my parents raised me to pull up my socks when times get tough. — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“The emptiness I'd been struggling to overcome settled around me like a dark, unwavering cloud.” — Trisha Leaver Copy Share Image
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The little mermaid watch the happy prince with the woman he loves, then she changes into a bubble drifts and disappears into… — The Little Mermaid Copy Share Image
“I become distantly aware of my own grief, and I realize how easily I'm able to force it away.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“It began with the Christmas tree lights. They were candy-bright, mouth-size. She wanted to feel the lightness of them on her tongue,… — Kirsty Logan Copy Share Image
“My head ached worst of all, some part of me tethered back to the valley, stretched out of recognizable shape and trying… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
“All I can tell you is this. Some hearts break from grief some from joy. Some even break from love. But hearts… — Catherine M. Wilsonson Copy Share Image
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding… — Bible Copy Share Image
I have known sorrow - therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily Than those who never sorrowed upon earth… — Theodosia Garrison Copy Share Image
“Was my sacrifice worth it? I felt hollow and bereft, yet the grief in my heart had palpable weight, bearing me down… — S. Jae-Jones Copy Share Image
“Why do we as humans always tend to remember the worse things about people? We may know someone for many years, know… — K. Martin Beckner Copy Share Image
“Sorrow on another's face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Walk openly, Marian used to say. Love even the threat and the pain, feel yourself fully alive, cast a bold shadow, accept,… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“When he woke up in the darkness of his hot and stuffy room he felt, even before his mind began working again,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“You cannot conceive of the depths of my sorrow, Campbell Maria Cooper." Alicia brought her fist to her mouth and her other… — Wendy Wunder Copy Share Image
“It was a fact that had become the focus of my entire life, a whisper in my heartbeat, a permanent, insidious presence… — Hazel Butler Copy Share Image
“I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
“This time, I heard a loud voice, literally heralding the reality that my daughter was never coming back. This time the depression… — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Copy Share Image
His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed… — Diophantus Copy Share Image
“My father does not deserve my sorrow, only relief. He can no longer torment anyone.” — Emily R. King Copy Share Image
“Her mouth tightens. 'Have you no more memories?' I am made of memories. 'Speak, then.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Grief was what you owed the dead for the necessary crime of living on without them.” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“Crying all the time had made her more beautiful. Grief will do that sometimes. Not for me. Loretta had left months ago… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“Sod off! Psych 101. There are five stages of grief and I’m owning that shit. They ARE my bitches.” — Christine Zolendz Copy Share Image
“Nothing chills the heart like symmetry, for symmetry is ennui and ennui is at the heart of grief.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage. — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“I know now that the most genuine happiness is kept afloat by an underlying sorrow.” — Seré Prince Halverson Copy Share Image
“We are always parting! It's supposed to be sweet sorrow or something, isn't it? Those poets. They'll say anything.” — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
“Yet I desperately wanted to share the news, as if grief were a heavy burden to be spread out among those who… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“There is enough heartache and sorrow in this life without our adding to it through our own stubbornness, bitterness, and resentment.” — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“grief is as much about regret for what you’ve never had as sadness for what you’ve lost. Anyway, we got through it… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.” — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“She feels a great pang of loss, an unexpected welling of sorrow mixed with confusion.” — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
